WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE WE ARE BIO ELECTRICAL ENGINES
In order to accomplish all the many millions of complex functions that
occur over the course of the day, your body has to be able to
communicate with itself… all the way down to the cellular level.
And do you know how it does this? Through pulses of
electricity. That's right, electricity.
Your body operates on an electro magnetic current. Believe it or
not, all of the organs in your body emit these fields of electrical
current. In fact, nerve signals are nothing more than electrical
charges.
What creates this electrical power in your body is a very fine balance
that exists in your bio chemistry. And of all the systems in your
body that depend on this delicate, bio chemical balance, one of the
most important is your blood stream. This is where pH comes into
play. But what is pH?
WHAT PH IS AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALL YOUR BODY FUNCTIONS
PH is a scale that measures how acidic or alkaline a substance
is. The scale ranges from 1 to 14 with 1 being very acid, 7
neutral and 14 very alkaline.
So what does pH have to do with you and your blood? Well, the pH
of your blood is extremely important. The ideal pH level for your blood
is right around 7.35 and your body goes to enormous lengths to maintain
this level.
Why? Because if your blood pH were to vary 1 or 2 points in
either direction, it would change the electrical chemistry in your
body, there would be no electrical power and in short order you would
drop dead. As you can see, maintaining the right pH level in your
blood is pretty important!!
With this in mind a good way to avoid upsetting this delicate bio
chemical balance would be to take a look at those things that can
compromise the maintenance of the ideal pH level in your body.
And what is the main culprit in this case? The answer is the
creation of acid in your body.
Before we look at what causes acid, here's a graphic example to give
you an idea of what can happen in the blood when your pH drops to less
than ideal. Red blood cells are how oxygen is transported to all
the cells in your body.
As red blood cells move into the tiny, little, capillaries, the space
they have to move through gets pretty small. In fact, the
diameter of the capillaries gets so small that the red blood cells
sometimes have to pass through these capillaries one red blood cell at
a time!
Because of this, and because it's important for the red blood cells to
be able to flow easily and quickly through your body, they have a
mechanism that allows them to remain separate from each other.
This mechanism comes in the form of the outside of healthy red blood
cells having a negative charge. This causes them to stay apart
from each other, sort of like when you try to push the negative ends of
two magnets together. They resist each other and stay apart.
Unfortunately, acid interferes with this very important mechanism in a
pretty frightening way. Acid actually strips away the negative
charge from red blood cells. The result is that your red blood
cells then tend to clump together and not flow as easily. This
makes it much more difficult for them to flow easily through the
bloodstream.
But it also makes it harder for them to move freely through those small
capillaries. This means less oxygen gets to your cells.
Acid also weakens the red blood cells and they begin to die. And
guess what they release into your system when they die? More acid.
I could describe a whole list of processes that occur when your system
becomes and remains acid but I think you get the idea. The point
is that aside from the acid that is secreted into your stomach to aid
digestion, acid in your body is bad. Really bad.
In regard to producing energy in the body, here's an easy question for
you. What do you think happens to a person's energy level if over
time their system becomes more and more acid, their biochemical balance
is disrupted and their red blood cells can't deliver oxygen and
nutrients as efficiently to all their cells? The answer is
simple. Their energy level drops. Dramatically.
Are you beginning to get the picture here as to the importance of pH in
your body? Good. Now let's take a quick look at what causes
acidity in your body and then look at steps you can take to get your
body pH back to an ideal level.
WHAT CAUSES ACID IN THE BODY
The primary cause of an acidic condition in your body is from what you
put in your mouth. In other words, what you eat and what you
drink. And it isn't how "acid" something may seem when you eat or
drink it. It has to do with what is left over when you digest it.
Specifically, does eating or drinking something leave behind an acid or
alkaline "ash". For example, I don't know about you but I love
seafood. Scallops are one of my favorites. However, when
your body digests scallops, it leaves an extremely acid ash. In
fact, scallops are one of the most acid foods you can eat.
Unfortunately, a lot of the things most people put in their mouths
create an acid ash. These include alcohol, coffee and a lot of
flesh protein in your diet. Interestingly enough, stress also
tends to create an acid condition in the body.
STEPS YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY TAKE TO IMPROVE YOUR PH
Fortunately, it is pretty easy to immediately change your pH for the
better and make it more alkaline. The first step is to understand
which of the foods you are eating and the drinks you are drinking are
acid and which are alkaline. Then it's simply a matter of
eliminating some of the more acid foods you are eating and adding in
more alkaline foods.
However, before you start, it's important to get a baseline of what the
pH is in your body so that you can see how you are improving or if you
need to continue to eliminate more acid foods and add in more alkaline
ones.
You can do this by testing the pH of your saliva on a regular
basis. This is really simple to do. More details on how to
do this are provided on some web pages I have created for you to help
you out. A link to these pages is provided below.
In addition to decreasing the amount of acid foods you eat and
increasing the amount of alkaline foods you eat, one of the best ways
to immediately begin changing your pH is to drink "green drinks".
You can make these by simply adding a powder that is made up of a whole
host of vegetables that are highly alkaline to a glass of water.
Information on suggested green drink powders to use is included on
pages that I have a link to below.
RESOURCES WHERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE
Clicking on the following link will take you to some pages I created
that have more information on alkaline and acid foods, how to test your
own pH and what to look for in green drinks.
Start taking the steps described above and you may very well find your
energy levels increasing over time. Mine certainly have.
- Andy Long
About the Author:
After years of extreme fatigue, severe digestion problems and frequent
sickness, Andy Long now enjoys energy levels that allow him to windsurf
in 30 mph winds for 3-4 hours at a time.
He now shares with others what he did to completely regain his health through his health related web sites and newsletter.
» left by Joe Ward from Kenton, Ohio (3 years 162 days ago.)
Great Article Andy Long! - Right on the money about healthy balanced PH. Keep sharing and caring pal. - Sincerely, Joe Ward, Naturopath and remember: Respond to this comment
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